Chuck wrote: > i converted an older guest that was brought up to date with emerege world to > baselayout2 (our template model) and have a problem in shutdown. i get these > messages. things are fine until near the end. > > * Stopping local ... [ ok ] > * Stopping vixie-cron ... [ ok ] > * Saving random seed ... [ ok ] > * Stopping chrooted named ... [ ok ] > * Stopping syslog-ng ... [ ok ] > WARNING: could not determine runlevel - doing soft halt > (it's better to use shutdown instead of halt from the command line) > shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl > init: timeout opening/writing control channel /dev/initctl > /usr/lib64/util-vserver/vserver.stop: line 96: 9034 > Killed "${NICE_CMD[@]}" "${CHBIND_CMD[@]}" "$_VSPACE" --enter "$S_CONTEXT" "${OPTS_VSPACE[@]}" -- "$_VTAG" --migrate "${OPTS_VTAG_ENTER[@]}" --silent -- > $_VCONTEXT > $SILENT_OPT --migrate --chroot --xid "$S_CONTEXT" -- "${INITCMD_STOP[@]}" > > i think the upgrade emerged not only baselayout-2 and openrc but also init-0. > when i first tried to start it i found itwas missing a file > I did not have this problem a month of so ago with open-rc 0.2.3 and some older udev and I *do* have it now that I have updated all my vservers to openrc 0.2.5. I had assumed that openrc updates were responsible, but not tracked that down Try reverting openrc to 0.2.3 and see if this fixes things and if so perhaps a diff to see what caused it? Ed W